Margaret Mitchell, 1900-1949

Biographical note

American author, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her novel Gone with the Wind. The novel is one of the most
popular books of all time, selling more than 30 million copies. An American film adaptation, released in 1939, became
the highest-grossing film in the history of Hollywood, and received a record-breaking ten Academy Awards.

For decades it was thought that Mitchell had only ever written one complete novel. But in the 1990s, a manuscript by
Mitchell of a novel entitled Lost Laysen — a romance set in the South Pacific — was discovered. The manuscript had been
written in two notebooks in 1916. A special edition of Lost Laysen was published by the Scribner imprint of Simon &
Schuster in 1996.

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